About the Author

Douglas R. Wolf

Doug Wolf is a shareholder in Wolf Greenfield's Trademark and Copyright Group. He practices primarily in the areas of trademark prosecution and litigation, patent portfolio management, infringement and patentability analysis, licensing and internet issues.

Any recent law school graduate or intellectual property attorney has likely come across Creative Commons, the California-based non-profit founded by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson and Eric Eldred. In-house attorneys working in the media industry might blame it for the need to remind their production people not to use everything found...

Two weeks ago we experienced a moment of Internet history. On Jan. 18, dubbed “Blackout Day,” Internet giants such as Google, Reddit and Wikipedia acted in protest in an attempt to show how overreaching the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are by censoring themselves...